CVE-2014-9897 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9897?

CVE-2014-9897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Aug 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate certain user-space data, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769856 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563752.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9897?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9897?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9897 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-9897 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9897 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h6mc-xcqf-wqq8.